DETROIT – Detroit Blight Busters, a well-known local group dedicated to helping neighbors remove blight and trash from their streets, is kicking off a significant community clean-up project this week.

The nonprofit recently opened a 48-unit apartment complex and is planning a larger 304-unit project. These developments rely on federal Low Income Housing Tax Credits to offer affordable rents.

Motor City Blight Busters on a recent Saturday. Credit: Katherine Raymond As far as anniversaries go, Motor City Blight Busters is enjoying a trifecta: The nonprofit’s founder, John George, was born ...

DETROIT (WXYZ) — As part of the 2025 state budget that Governor Whitmer signed earlier this week, Detroit Blight Busters is getting $1 million. I got the chance to ...

Southfield (CW50) - Detroit Blight Busters might sound like a funny play on the Ghost Busters, but the work that the blight busters do in Detroit nothing to laugh at. The City of Detroit has been ...

Things change, and they don’t.Take John George and Motor City Blight Busters, the nonprofit group he founded two decades ago.The story of his group’s origins has been told before, but it deserves ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. A Cleveland nonprofit and a local volunteer organization ...

DETROIT, MI - The Motor City Blight Busters is involved in a Chase Bank online contest to determine which of the country's charitable organizations will share $5 million worth of grants to support ...

Faraz Javed is your community reporter for Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Melvindale, Hamtramck, and Highland Park. Connect with him at Faraz.Javed@wxyz.com. DETROIT ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blight Busters cofounder John George releases an opossum in Detroit’s Rogell Park, near the site of a planned 304-unit housing ...

Detroit may have declared bankruptcy, but Motor City Blight Busters is fighting to bring the city back one abandoned building and one vacant lot at a time. For 25 years the nonprofit has demolished ...

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